VIA SAN CIPRIANO

Director: Lea SchludeCountry: Italy/GermanyLength: 67’Year: 2019

Rome on a blazing summer day. The filmmaker visits her grandmother Emilia in an apartment building on San Cipriano Road, where she lives together with her two sisters and one brother, all over ninety years old. As husbands and wives have passed away, the four are left again with each other. Rummaging through co-living situations and memories well kept, the family portrait also reveals the filmmaker’s search for clues as to how to live her own life, comparing two generations of women 70 years apart from each other.

Lea Schlude

Born in 1990, Lea Schlude grew up in Germany and Italy. After attending acting school, she graduated in Philosophy, Arts and Media at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, and is currently completing her M.A. in Philosophy at Free University Berlin. Her artistic practice is situated at the intersection of film and philosophy, as she explores issues of place, memory and identity. Set in Rome, the documentary “Via San Cipriano” (2019) is her debut feature-film, portraying her nonagenarian grandmother and her siblings. It was awarded a special mention at Bellaria Film Festival and is featured in the Media Library of Vision du Réel 2019.

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